Korneel Bernolet

CONDUCTOR - HARPSICHORDIST - RECORDING ENGINEER

“Among the younger generation of early music people in Belgium, the name Korneel Bernolet is one to be watched. He is an extremely fluent player gifted with indefatigable concentration, a natural talent!"Sigiswald Kuijken, 2012

News

Apr. & Jun. 2018: Vive Couperin! | In a series of 8 videos, birthday boy François Couperin is featured on the original Dulcken 1747 harpsichord at Museum Vleeshuis, Antwerp, under the hands of Korneel Bernolet.Korneel gave a duo recital with Christophe Rousset at Musikfestspiele Potsdam, playing three suites from Les Nations in Couperin's prescribed version for two harpsichords

Mar. 2018 | New CD releaseMusic from the circle around Leonora Duarte in Antwerp, c.1640.I recorded four virginal solos by John Bull, including the famous Fantasia Sexti Toni and a newly discovered alternative version of 'Dr. Bull's Jewel': 'Courante Het Juweel'. All played on my fantastic muselaar replica by Walter Maene after the original Couchet, currently at Museum Vleeshuis in Antwerp.Listen to the beginning of each CD track here!

Feb. 2018 | My first three Beethoven 9's were a huge success, with the concerts in Bruges Concertgebouw and Frankfurt Alte Oper completely sold-out, approximating 5.000 people in the audiences for my début with Anima Eterna Brugge and Collegium Vocale Gent. Concertgebouw Brugge live-streamed the performance on Saturday 24 February 2018, watch it on Youtube:

Jan. 2018 | "Korneel Bernolet is to be Anima Eterna Brugge's guest-conductor in the big Beethoven project at Concertgebouw Brugge and Alte Oper Frankfurt next month! Korneel Bernolet --one of the young talents supported by the ‘Anima Next Generation’ program-- has collaborated with Anima as an assistant-conductor at several occasions, among which the Beethoven tour in Mexico back in October 2015. Now he’s stepping up to lead the orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent and soloists Suh Yeree, Isabelle Rejall - Mezzosopran, Markus Schäfer and Thomas Bauer through the monumental “9th” and the Chorfantasie. Korneel himself, as well as Anima-founder Jos Van Immerseel and the musicians are very much looking forward to this occasion, especially since Korneel’s Fingerspitzengefühl for the great choir repertoire is outright terrific... A debut not to be missed!" (source: Anima Eterna Brugge's Facebook page)

Dec. 2017 | The latest Apotheosis production, in collaboration with three oratorium choirs conducted by Korneel and performing Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem and Mendelssohn's 'Hör mein Bitten', was a great success, with around 2.500 people attending our concert series.

Nov. 2017 | The new Apotheosis CD with cantatas by Nicolas Bernier has been released and is collecting raving reviews on the international scene! Watch our first trailer here:

Mar. 2017 | "The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp has appointed Korneel Bernolet as Professor of Harpsichord. He follows in the footsteps of Kenneth Gilbert, Jos van Immerseel and Ewald Demeyere. He will be teaching on the instrument collection of Museum Vleeshuis with the famous fabulous original Dulcken 1747 harpsichord." (source: www.ap.be)